Now you can Google from your Gmail interface while composing a mail. The feature is available in labs and it lets you search and share the results through mail or chat. The search icon starts appearing in your tool bar once you activate the feature in ‘Lab’ under ‘Settings’.
When you click on the icon, a small search [...]
If you own more than one Gmail account, you know how painful it can get to manage multiple accounts. One of the way I used to get around this was to open my different accounts using different browsers. Recently I just discovered this add on for Firefox which replaces the “Sign Out” link on Google [...]
With Google ending its censorship in China and as a result, may have to pull out of the country. As you also may have heard, this is the direct result of the attempted hacking of some Gmail accounts. Google obviously takes its security seriously, and they’ve made that more clear by announcing that all Gmail accounts will [...]
There was a time when you bought a 1.4MB Floppy disk for $1 or so. Memory was expensive until the solid state devices came to the market which made 8GB!! a hand held commodity. In a similar way, memory in webmail and other portal was expensive, until Gmail came with its 1 GB options.
The need [...]
How often have you pressed the “SEND” button in your mail client and hit your head cause you sent to wrong person. Ya that happens quite a time when you are in hurry or the name gets mismatched. Do you think such things can be avoided, human errors are infamous for being tolerant to any [...]
There is always a need for making things simpler and faster. So even though accessing the mails in your Gmail Inbox doesn’t really take too much time, having a shortcut doesn’t harm. So, here are a few tips from Cnet which makes life even simpler.
Since Gmail has introduced the web based messenger, I have almost never used any other messenger. I do sometimes use the desktop version of GTalk, when I have to do some quick file sharing, but the desktop version leaves a lot to be desired in terms of smilies. The biggest winning factor for me about web based [...]
It’s hardly been a month since Google suffered a major outage for about 100 minutes. Google attributed this to a few servers being taken offline and the other backup servers not being able to take up the corresponding change in load. As I write this post right now, Gmail is still down.
There is no explanation on [...]
If you have forgotten to sign out of your Gmail account from someone’s system or you think somebody has accessed your password and is using your account. Its very simple to get out of all your Gmail session and this video from cnet demonstrates how.
Do you have a gmail account o have Windows Live Hotmail account? Personally, I only have gmail and yahoo account. No, I don’t even use hotmail, may be because I forgot my password . I only had it once cause I wanted to use MSN but when the application kept forcing me to upgrade, [...]